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Southern Arizona’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration Focuses on Survivors’ Legacies
April 21, 2026 / Sharon Glassberg, JFCS Coordinator of Holocaust Survivor Services & Jewish Inclusion
An older woman lights a candle on a candelabra. To her left and right are a teenage girl and boy. A woman stands at a podium behind the candlelighting scene.Theresa Dulgov, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, lights a candle with her great-grandchildren Fabian Ybarra (left) and Adacelia Figueroa at the Southern Arizona community Yom HaShoah commemoration on April 12, 2026. Raisa Moroz, JFCS director for Holocaust services, looks on from the podium. (Photo: Tucson J)

Community members, clergy, and other local leaders came together with Holocaust survivors and members of the second and third generations on Sunday, April 12, in the Paul and Alice Baker Ballroom at the Tucson Jewish Community Center to honor the survivors, the flickers of light that came out of… Read more »

Tucson’s Holocaust Center Launches 3D Testimony Project
December 22, 2025 / Phyllis Braun, AJP Feature Writer
Andrew with Ori and Bertie frame TJMHC 3D

Last month, the Tucson Jewish History Museum & Holocaust Center unveiled a new way for visitors to hear from Holocaust survivors: “Intimate Histories in 3D.” The project uses volumetric capture technology to create three-dimensional recordings of survivors that can be viewed on tablets and personal devices.TJMHC created the project… Read more »

Finkel to lead teens on March of the Living
September 27, 2019 /
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Tucson Holocaust survivor Sidney Finkel will lead Southern Arizona teens on the 2020 March of the Living. Participants will retrace his steps through his childhood home of Piotrkow, Poland, including the first Nazi decreed ghetto in occupied Poland, where he and his family were forced to live. Finkel… Read more »

Holocaust survivor tells story to thousands of children via global talks, book

Sidney Finkel, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Tucson, with his memoir, ‘Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die.’ (Debe Campbell)Sidney Finkel, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Tucson, with his memoir, ‘Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die.’ (Debe Campbell)
June 28, 2018 / Debe Campbell, AJP Editorial Assistant

Sidney Finkel ended his self-imposed silence in 1993 about Holocaust survival as a child. At the insistence of his daughter, Ruth, he shared the story with his family of the young boy born Sevek Finkelstein. Born in Poland to a well-to-do family of seven, he lived an idyllic childhood… Read more »

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